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North Korea is evading sanctions by animating Max and Amazon shows (arstechnica.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Thousands of exposed files on North Korean server tell the tale.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Based on the title, I thought it meant they were pulling a "wikiHow" and rotoscoping/reanimating existing movies and TV shows. No, they're contract animators working for HBO Max and Amazon.

When Roy discovered the exposed cloud server, it was being updated on a daily basis. Martyn Williams, a senior fellow on the 38 North Project who helped analyze the contents of the server, says the server likely allowed work to be sent to and from North Korean animators. The server itself is still live, but it mysteriously stopped being used at the end of February. While there is a login page, its contents can be accessed without a username and password. “I found the login page after I found all the exposed files,” Roy says.

I wonder if anyone can find the cloud server, and if so, archive the contents. It's always fascinating seeing behind-the-scenes details about shows, but official behind-the-scenes footage always lacks depth. It'd be cool to archive that stuff.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

The fact that it's not rotoscoped North Korean remakes proves we're not in the Good Place.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

I propose the title "Amazon and HBO Max offshore work, which ended up paying North Korea. But the stock market responded well."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sanctions placed upon the North Korean regime, for its ongoing human rights abuses and nuclear warfare programs, prohibit US companies from working with DPRK companies or individuals

Does that mean the rest of the world is morally obliged to do the same to the US for the same reasons?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

NK literally doesn't have famine because the West gives them food.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I don’t fuck with the North Korean government but starting a population because of their leaders they can’t even elect is fucked up and our leaders are conquering the world while we pay them to do it and no one punishes us for it

why are they so poor? why is Cuba so poor? How many countries has north korea bombed? How many coups have they orchestrated around the world? How many genocides have they committed and are committing? Collective punishment is a war crime, the North Korean people and the Cuban people shouldn’t suffer and starve for the crimes of their leaders. If you think they should but don’t think we deserve punishment for them millions of innocent people or governments kill then maybe you should wonder why you think that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Agree 100%

I think Cuba is a great example, since it's less emotional right now for most people. We've been starving those people since 1960 for what? For cooperating and allying with a country that we didn't like? For nationalizing the oil we were harvesting on their island and selling for our profit? (After we started santioning them too) 64 years of collective punishment for being too commie near our precious stolen land.

Our government does deserve blowback for what we've done in our relatively short time around. I hope it isn't taken out on the people, but if it is I guess it makes sense for how we treated everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I think it is very easy to say that. If you had the US government and their allies, what would you do then?

Befriend them? Tried that got Hitler.

Eradicate them? Lost wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan and Korea over the same thing.

Let them be? And if they start accruing power and their way of being is a threat to yours, what then?

I'm not saying I agree but you act as if it is assault or something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not even remotely relevant to what op said.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

This commenter is suggesting people treat the US like they treat NK.

US - NK relations are very one sided. US is offering aid and NK is offering threats. From my understanding the country lives in a hard mix of ignorance and fear because of their government. NK also threatens our allies with nuclear destruction. We still present them with aid.

It is fun and cute to point at all the stuff the US does wrong but I can literally change my president, I can speak ill of them and the information they hide often still comes to light so for OP to suggest people treat the US like that they're choosing to frame them as equals when they're really not. World isn't perfect but the US government is miles above the NK one in basically all regards.

If NK had the money and the US had the famine I don't think they'd be offering aid to the American populace in the same way the US does.

So yes it is extremely relevant to consider how you'd be treated if the roles were reversed and then you understand why these sanctions are in place. NK is no ally and most of their positions on international affairs are simply anti-west.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's so unfair! 😭💔

Everyone bullies Kim and no one stands up the the US 😡

It this was a school yard than it would be the most unfair schoolyard ever! 💯💯💯

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Annoying use of emojis

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Isn't this common knowledge? Plenty of animated series from the 80s and onwards were animated in NK.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

sanctions on NK goes from hard to soft im waves over the years. arguably the heaviest sanctions were imposed from nuclear tests they conducted in like the 2000s. not sure where sanctions on animation came into place, but they very well could've been allowed at one point when tensions weren't as high.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But like... Where can I watch these?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Amazon and HBO. They were doing animation for the proper shows. Not creating North Korean clones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Ohhh I completely misunderstood that. I really wanted to watch bootleg animations with the same audio.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fucking tankies in this thread.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Block em.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Certainly makes it easy when they expose themselves

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Awww, I was hoping for "sweded" movies!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Glad neither are getting my money

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Sanctions placed upon the North Korean regime, for its ongoing human rights abuses and nuclear warfare programs

Damn where are the sanctions on the US? You know, the only country crazy enough to use those nukes on actual human beings instead of just using it as a deterrence like the DPRK does?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You’re delusional

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

What part isn't true tho?

Jingoists are hilarious on all sides.